I am an assistant professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management in the Management and Organizations department.
This is my vitae.
Selected publications:
Caruso, E. M., Vohs, K. D., Baxter, B., & Waytz, A. (in press). Mere Exposure to money increases endorsement of free market systems and social inequality, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Trawalter, S., Hoffman, K., & Waytz, A. (2012). Racial bias in perceptions of others' pain. PLoS ONE, 7, e48546.
Phelan, M., & Waytz, A. (2012). The moral cognition/consciousness connection. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 3, 293-301.
Waytz, A., Zaki, J., & Mitchell, J.P. (2012). Response of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex predicts altruistic behavior. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 7646-7650.
Gray, K., Young, L., & Waytz, A. (in press). Mind perception is the essence of morality. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 101-124. [Target Article]
Gray, K., Waytz, A., Young, L. (2012). The moral dyad: A fundamental template unifying moral judgment. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 206-215. [reply to commentaries]
Haque, O.S.*, & Waytz, A.* (2012). Dehumanization in medicine: causes, solutions, and functions. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 176-186. *Equal authorship.
Waytz, A., & Epley, N. (2012). Social connection enables dehumanization. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 70-76.
Waytz, A., & Young, L. (2012). The group member mind tradeoff: Attributing minds to groups versus group members. Psychological Science, 23, 77-85.
Waytz, A., & Mitchell, J.P. (2011). Two mechanisms for simulating other minds: Dissociations between mirroring and self-projection. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 197-200.
Waytz, A., Morewedge, C.K., Epley, N., Monteleone, G., Gao, J-H, & Cacioppo, J.T. (2010). Making sense by making sentient: Effectance motivation increases anthropomorphism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 410-435.
Waytz, A., Gray, K., Epley, N., & Wegner, D.M (2010). Causes and consequences of mind perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14, 383-388.
Caruso, E., Waytz, A., & Epley, N. (2010). The intentional mind and the hot hand: Perceiving intentions makes streaks seem likely to continue. Cognition, 116, 149-153.
Waytz, A., Cacioppo, J. T., & Epley, N. (2010). Who sees human? The stability and importance of individual differences in anthropomorphism. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 219-232.
Waytz, A., Epley, N., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2010). Social cognition unbound: Psychological insights into anthropomorphism and dehumanization. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 58-62.
Epley, N., Waytz, A., Akalis, S., Cacioppo, J. T. (2008). When we need a human: Motivational determinants of anthropomorphism. Social Cognition, 26, 143-155.
Epley, N., Akalis, S., Waytz, A., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2008). Creating social connection through inferential reproduction: Loneliness and perceived agency in gadgets, gods, and greyhounds. Psychological Science, 19, 114-120.
Epley, N., Waytz, A., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). On seeing human: A three-factor theory of anthropomorphism. Psychological Review, 114, 864-886.
Chapters (email me for a copy):
Young, L.*, & Waytz, A.* (in press). Mind attribution is for morality. In H.Tager-Flusberg & S. Baron-Cohen (Eds.). Other minds. *Equal Authorship.
Epley, N., Schroeder, J., & Waytz, A. (in press). Motivated mind perception: Treating pets as people and people as animals. In Gervais, S. (Ed.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (Vol. 60).
Waytz, A. (in press). Anthropomorphism: Understanding what it means to be human. In K. Markman, T. Proulx, & M. Lindberg (Eds.), The psychology of meaning.
Waytz, A. (in press). Social connection and seeing human. In C. N. DeWall (Ed.), The handbook of social exclusion.
Waytz, A., Klein, N., & Epley, N. (In press). Imagining other minds: Hair triggered but not hare brained. In Marjorie Taylor (Ed.), The development of imagination. Oxford University Press: New York.
Epley, N., & Waytz, A. (2010). Mind perception. In S.T. Fiske, D.T. Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Psychology (5th ed., pp. 498-541). New York: Wiley.